BUDDENBERGRA@USC-ISI.ARPA (Rex Buddenberg) (09/28/85)
For AMPRO/Little Board and Ciarcia HD64180 board owners. An undocumented feature that I discovered is that the 5 1/4 disc formats are identical for both machines. Now what engineer in his right mind would have made that unforgivable error? Must be a bug... -------
RCONN@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Rick Conn) (09/30/85)
Yes, anomalies like the compatability of 5 1/4" disk formats between the Ampro and the SB180 occur from time to time. Has something to do with the same person doing the BIOS (in this case, Joe Wright). The government is aware of this problem and is planning to budget $1M for a study to decide what to do about it. I can really vouch for it. I do all development on my main system, use T3MASTER/T3SERVER to transfer files to the Ampro, and then litterally put the Ampro disk on the SB180 and read/use it. Works like a charm. Rick -------
cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis) (09/30/85)
> For AMPRO/Little Board and Ciarcia HD64180 board owners. > An undocumented feature that I discovered is that the > 5 1/4 disc formats are identical for both machines. > > Now what engineer in his right mind would have made that > unforgivable error? Must be a bug... > ------- Hardly undocumented, since it says so right in the article. Yet why consider it a bug? Are we missing a smiley face here? So now that I have built my new system into a Fraggle Rock lunch box where do I put my sandwich? Kaypro eat your heart out. \\ :: \\ :: || || (a poor attempt at a LARGE smiley face) :: || :: // // --Chuck -- - - - D I S C L A I M E R - - - {ihnp4,fortune}!dual\ All opinions expressed herein are my {qantel,idi}-> !intelca!cem own and not those of my employer, my {ucbvax,hao}!hplabs/ friends, or my avocado plant. :-}